HowTo? Move Wine from one Linux PC to another

[arney]

Hi there,

PSA: Please do not suggest going physical2virtual or anything with virtual machines in response to this questions. This questions is explicitly not about doing such stunts.

Now that I have your attention

I have a Ubuntu Lucid PC running Wine with programms installed.

I also have a fresh Ubuntu Precise PC with fresh Wine.

I'd like to move all the crappy Windows Programs from one machine to the next, so I can dispose the old machine.

Is it sufficent to

• copy "C-drive" over and
• drop the registry on the old machine and import it on the new?

[dimesio]

Just copy the entire wineprefix(es).

[arney]

Sounds simple ... as soon as I understand what you're trying to tell because the old installtion is from the former admin and I all I know about wine as of yet is how to apt-get it.

Maybe I should try with a Precise VM first, as per known issues with Wine in Precise, and resetability of the VM.

Thanks

[dimesio]

A wineprefix is the directory where Wine stores its fake C: drive. The default is ~/.wine, but it is possible to specify a different one, and even to have multiple wineprefixes. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#wineprefix